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Weekly reads: Gamida Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee, CRISPR in viruses

Hematopoietic stem cells have many clinical applications and a company called Gamida Cell has an interesting product in this area called Omidubicel that may have several applications.  I'm going to start the weekly reads with news there. Gamida Cell and the FDA A recent piece discussed how Omidubicel is progressing with the FDA. FDA extends deadline to decide on Gamida …
Abigail L. Jenkins, Gamida Cell

Updates on CRISPR therapy development and clinical trials

Updates on CRISPR therapy development and clinical trials
When I first heard of CRISPR gene editing I was excited for my lab to try it out, but it seemed a long way from the field having even one CRISPR therapy available to treat human disease. In the Knoepfler lab, we study genetic and genomic programming in human development and disease. Gene editing seemed like a great tool for …